Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- LaRosa, Steve
- Abstract:
- The Steve LaRosa videotape collection consists of documentaries, commercials, interviews with musicians and actors, public service annoucements, and other assorted footage created by Steve LaRosa and Steve LaRosa Productions between 1976-2008. The collection is organized into nine series: television documentaries, entertainment interviews and features, Television reports and interviews, Public Service Annoucements (PSAs), Demos, Commercials, Charity events, and Production notes. The bulk of the collection consists of television commericals and newscast interviews produced from television stations in the Sacramento area. Highlights in the collection include interviews used in documentaries created for television on Japanese Internment during World War II, Gaman: The Internment Remembered, and Pilots of Aztlan: The Flights of the Royal Chicano Air Force, and interviews with the cast from Animal House and Splash. The music interviews series includes original footage of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Beach Boys, Heart, Journey, and a memorial following the death of John Lennon.
- Extent:
- 34 linear feet (34 boxes)
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identifcation of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Steve LaRosa videotape collection, MS0038, Center for Sacramento History.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Steve LaRosa videotape collection consists of documentaries, commercials, interviews with musicians and actors, public service annoucements, and other assorted footage created by Steve LaRosa and Steve LaRosa Productions between 1976-2008. The collection is organized into nine series: television documentaries, entertainment interviews and features, Television reports and interviews, Public Service Annoucements (PSAs), Demos, Commercials, Charity events, and Production notes. The bulk of the collection consists of television commericals and newscast interviews produced from television stations in the Sacramento area. Highlights in the collection include interviews used in documentaries created for television on Japanese Internment during World War II, Gaman: The Internment Remembered, and Pilots of Aztlan: The Flights of the Royal Chicano Air Force, and interviews with the cast from Animal House and Splash. The music interviews series includes original footage of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Beach Boys, Heart, Journey, and a memorial following the death of John Lennon.
- Biographical / historical:
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Steve LaRosa began his career at KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California. Over a period of fifteen years, he worked in various capacities as a magazine program producer and reporter. In 1987, he founded Steve LaRosa Productions providing marketing, advertising, media relations, social media, public relations, video and radio production, print and web design services and media buying for commercial, private, government and non-profit organizations.
- Acquisition information:
- The Steve LaRosa videotape collection was donated to the Center for Sacramento History by Steve LaRosa 2014-2019 (accessions #2014/033, 2019/026).
- Processing information:
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Inventory created by Kathi Bristow 2019. Finding aid created by Sean Heyliger 2019.
- Arrangement:
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- Series 1. Documentaries for television
- Series 2. Entertainment interviews and features
- Subseries 2.1 Movie, radio and TV
- Subseries 2.2 Music interviews and music scenes
- Series 3. Local television reports and interviews
- Subseries 3.1 Sports
- Subseries 3.2 Sacramento area interviews and newscasts
- Series 4. Public service announcements (PSAs)
- Series 5. Compilations
- Subseries 5.1 Demos, features, and "getaways"
- Subseries 5.2 Assorted
- Series 6. Commercials
- Series 7. Business
- Series 8. Charity events
- Series 9. Production notes
- Physical location:
- 9B5-11, 9C8-11
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research use.
- Terms of access:
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All requests to publish or quote from private collections held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron. No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identifcation of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Steve LaRosa videotape collection, MS0038, Center for Sacramento History.
- Location of this collection:
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551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd.Sacramento, CA 95811, US
- Contact:
- (916) 808-7072